This week’s selection from the Letter to the Ephesians includes a call to strive "to preserve the unity of the spirit through the bond of peace.” In the wake of last weekend’s Colorado movie theater shooting, President Barack Obama and presumptive Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney . . .

This Sunday’s gospel account of the miracle of the loaves and fishes makes clear that Jesus understood the dangers of hero-worship. The statue of former Penn State University coach Joe Paterno—once considered an iconic hero—was removed from public view . . .

The Lord “answers all our needs” and satisfies “the desire of every living thing,” the psalmist testifies this Sunday. Those gathered in Washington, D.C. this week at the world’s largest AIDS conference sounded the alarm . . .

In this Sunday’s selection from the Letter to the Ephesians, each of is us is urged “to live in a manner worthy of the call you have received, with all humility and gentleness.” By all accounts, astronaut and physicist Sally Ride, who in 1983 became the first American woman sent into space, did just that . . .

“You knew full well what was right, Monsignor Lynn, but you chose wrong.”

According to the marketing firm Brand Republic, the Olympics is the most valuable brand of Greek origin, worth $48 billion—or 134 times more than the National Bank of Greece